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A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

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'Perhaps the most brilliant of the Shakespearean historicists is Richard Wilson.'
A.D.Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker

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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political
2. Welsh roots: Shakespeare’s brute part
3. O world: The echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar
4. Denmark’s a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art
5. Great stage of fools: King Lear and the king’s men
6. Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth
7. Your crown’s awry: The visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra
8. Like an eagle in a dovecot: The intrusion of the time into the play
Epilogue: No sovereignty: Shakespeare’s voyage to Greece
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/03/2014
      ISBN13: 9780719091797, 978-0719091797
      ISBN10: 719091799

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

      Trade Review

      'Perhaps the most brilliant of the Shakespearean historicists is Richard Wilson.'
      A.D.Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political
      2. Welsh roots: Shakespeare’s brute part
      3. O world: The echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar
      4. Denmark’s a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art
      5. Great stage of fools: King Lear and the king’s men
      6. Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth
      7. Your crown’s awry: The visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra
      8. Like an eagle in a dovecot: The intrusion of the time into the play
      Epilogue: No sovereignty: Shakespeare’s voyage to Greece
      Index

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